Category: Conference Listings

The 30th annual Arkansas Spring Lecture Series in the Mathematical Sciences, at the University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, will be held April 14 – 16, 2005. The topic for this year’s Lecture Series is “Recent Developments in Tight Closure.” The principal lecturers are

• Mel Hochster (University of Michigan)
• Craig Huneke (University of Kansas).
• Invited speakers include
• Holger Brenner (University of Sheffield)
• Nobuo Hara (Tohoku University)
• Gennady Lyubeznik (University of Minnesota)
• Anurag Singh (Georgia Tech University)
• Shunsuke Takagi (Kyushu University).

There will also be a public lecture by Mel Hochster, “Women in Mathematics”.
For more information, consult the conference website.

Alex Martsinkovsky and Mara D Neusel are organizing a Special Session on “Homological Algebra and its Applications” at the AMS Spring Central Sectional Meeting at Texas Tech University, Lubbock TX, April 8-10 2005.
For more information, see the AMS page for the meeting.

From April 5 to April 10, 2005, there will be a Workshop on Cohen-Macaulay Rings and Related Structures at Faculty of Mathematics and Informatics, Ovidius University of Constanta, Romania. The workshop is organized by Department of Mathematics, University of Kaiserslautern, supported by Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft, in cooperation with Institute of Mathematics “Simion Stoilow” of the Romanian Academy , Faculty of Mathematics and Informatics, Bucharest University, Faculty of Mathematics and Informatics, Ovidius University, Constanta, and Romanian Mathematical Society.
For more information, including a list of organizers and main speakers, see the Workshop web page.

There will be a special session in Commutative Ring Theory at the AMS Sectional Meeting in Bowling Green, KY on March 18 and 19, 2005. For more information contact Mike Axtell (axtellm AT wabash.edu) or Joe Stickles (js298 AT evansville.edu) or see the AMS web page for the session.

March 15 and 16, 2005, the University of Duisburg-Essen will host a Mini-Workshop on Commutative Algebra. The Workshop is organized by Jürgen Herzog (Essen) and Dorin Popescu (Essen).
Please see the web page for the Workshop for more information, including a preliminary list of speakers and tentative program.

The Fields Institute is sponsoring the 2nd Workshop on Resolutions, Inverse Systems, and Coinvariants at the University of Ottawa, January 13-15, 2005. The Workshop brings together Algebraic Combinatorialists and Commutative Algebraists to discuss relationships between special cases of the notion of Macaulay’s inverse systems in Commutative Algebra, and coinvariant spaces studied in Algebraic Combinatorics and Representation Theory.
Invited speakers include François Bergeron (UQAM), Nantel Bergeron (York), Tony Geramita (Queen’s), and Christophe Reutenauer (UQAM).
For more information, please see the Fields Institute’s web page for the Workshop, or contact one of the organizers: Riccardo Biagioli (UQAM), Sara Faridi (University of Ottawa), or Mercedes Rosas (York University).

Srikanth Iyengar, Anurag Singh, Sean Sather-Wagstaff, and Carolyn Yackel will organize a Special Session on Commutative Algebra at the annual Joint Meetings of the AMS and MAA, in Atlanta, GA, January 5-8, 2005.
For more information, see the AMS page for the Session.
There will also be a Special Session on D-modules, organized by Uli Walther and Steve Sperber. For more information, see the AMS page for the Session, or for the meeting.

At the CMS meeting in Montreal, Quebec on December 11-13, 2004, there will be a special session in Commutative Algebra. One of the goals of the session is to bring together many of the people in Canada who are working in commutative algebra and related areas (e.g., algebraic combinatorics, algebraic geometry, invariant theory). The tentative plan is to have approximately 20 talks, of about 20 minutes each. There will be 10 minutes between talks for questions and discussion. A number of slots have been left open for other talks, especially by graduate students and recent PhDs. If you are interested in giving a talk, please contact one of the organizers listed below.

• Sara Faridi (LaCIM, University of Quebec at Montreal, faridi@math.uqam.ca)
• Sindi Sabourin (York University, lsabouri@yorku.ca)
• Will Traves (US Naval Academy, traves@usna.edu)
• Adam Van Tuyl (Lakehead University, avantuyl@sleet.lakeheadu.ca)

More information, including confirmed speakers, is on the session web page.
update: There are photos!

The 16th Seminar on Algebra at the Institute for Advanced Studies in Basic Sciences, Zanjan, Iran, will take place 27-29 November 2004.
This seminar is one of the serial specific annual seminars of the Iranian Mathematical Society.  For more information and registration see the conference website.

The Red Raider Symposium 2004, “Invariant Theory in Perspective”, will be held November 11-13 2004, at Texas Tech University, Lubbock TX.
Confirmed speakers include Roger Howe, Yale University; Peter Olver, University of Minnesota; Karen Parshall, University of Virginia; Vladimir Popov, Moscow State University; David Wehlau, Royal Military College; Clarence W. Wilkerson, Purdue University; Anne Shepler, University of North Texas; and Sarah Witherspoon, Texas A&M University.
For more information please see the web page for the Symposium.